I got tired of all the comment spam on this blog. I don’t think anyone has noticed anything because of the terrific Akismet plugin that catches pretty much all of it, but right now I have 755 spam comments killed by Akismet so far.

It’s tiresome. And every once in a while I have to look them over to make sure that no “real” comment got caught and vaporized by it.

So I’ve added a little safety mechanism. The comment feature now asks you a simple question: Are you human or not? With any luck, that simple question will block out 95% of all automated spam-bots posting to every web page. Akismet will probably pick off the few that make it beyond that.

Please let me know if you experience any problems commenting.